The lower half of households in Singapore saw their incomes from work grow last year, but at a slower pace than the wealthier half. Still, according to a Department of Statistics (DOS) report released on Thursday, income inequality changed little from 2016, as government transfers and taxes narrowed the gap between the rich and poor.

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HDB resale prices dipped 0.5 per cent in January compared with December last year (2017), coupled with a 31.4 per cent drop in sales volume, according to SRX Property flash estimates released on Thursday.

Food and beverage group Sakae Holdings on Thursday announced that its subsidiary, Sakae Fintech, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Ffastpay, a unit of electronic payment solutions provider Mobile Credit Payment (MC Payment), to develop a custom blockchain to generate a food and beverage (F&B) digital token - "Bitecoin", for the South-east Asia market.

Launch customer Singapore Airlines (SIA) will deploy its first Boeing 787-10 aircraft, with new regional cabin products, to Osaka from May this year. The airline, which has 49 Boeing 787-10s on firm order, will take delivery of its first B787-10 from Boeing's South Carolina production facility in March.

Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), the joint venture between ST Aerospace and Airbus, has entered into a letter of intent (LOI) with Guangdong Aerocity Holding Co (GDA) for a potential order of 10 A320 Passenger-to-Freighter (P2F) conversions.